Illustrator coursework...

Hey all, first time poster.
I've taken an extra module at uni in Adobe Illustrator, but I've never really used Illustrator before lol. I'm very familiar with Photoshop and Dreamweaver.
I've been given an assignment and was hoping to find a few tutorials similar to the assignment I've been given. Just so that I can get an idea of what I should be doing.
I have to create a digital illustration from a charactor sketch of my choice, using layers, shapes and as many illustrator tools as possible really.
It must involve...
involve creating and modifying paths;
involve drawing and editing geometric objects;
involve applying fill and stroke attributes, colours, gradients, and transparency to objects and paths;
involve using layers;
involve entering and formatting type in an illustration
Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Yes: Help menu > Illustrator Help...
You're asking for someone in an online forum to give you a general crash-course in Illustrator, without any specifics as to the task at hand. That's just not practical. If it were, why would you be taking the course?
Based on your very general description of the task, here are very general instructions:
1. Sketch your "character" (whatever that is) on paper.
2. Scan it as a low-res grayscale image.
3. Import it into Illustrator. Put it on its own Layer. Make the Layer a Template Layer.
4. On a layer above the template layer, use the Pen tool to draw paths. Use the various shape tools to draw "geometric objects."
5. Apply fills and/or strokes to the paths you draw. Make some of the fills Gradient Fills. Apply Transparency effects to some of the paths, fills, and/or strokes. (Don't go nuts with this.)
6. Use the text tool to add PointType and/or AreaType objects.
Search in Online Help for any of the terms mentioned above you don't undestand or operations you don't know how to do.
Come back here after you've made an honest attempt and encounter a specific problem. (Or ask your instructor. After all, what are instructors paid to do; teach or just hand out assignments?)
JET

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I had my 2012 MacBook Pro replaced by Apple owing to various issues and have since tried to install Creative Suite 6 and Google Chrome amongst other software.
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I have uninstalled and reinstalled the software on numerous occasions to no avail.
I am a complete technophobe (well, I'm sure I am compared to most of you in here) and I'm at a loss as to what to do. I've googled the issue and I managed to find some stuff out about moving files to folders etc, but I seriously haven't got a clue! I've got some coursework due for Wednesday and was hoping someone might be able to give me a step by step guide as to how to resolve this if it is obvious to some in here.
PLEASE could someone help?!! In an ideal world, one of you helpful lot would tell me what to do in baby fashion, but I totally understand that's a big ask!
Sorry to be so stupid! Oh, Google Chrome comes up with a similar message, but that's not my ultimate concern at the moment.
It comes up with a great screen with a yellow exclamation mark followed by 'Adobe Illustrator CS6 quit unexpectedly'
The error code then reads as follows:
Process: Adobe Illustrator [2026]
Path: /Applications/Applications/*/Adobe Illustrator.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Illustrator
Identifier: com.adobe.illustrator
Version: 691 (16.0.4)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: ??? [1]
Responsible: Adobe Illustrator [2026]
User ID: 501
Date/Time: 2015-03-01 21:42:41.834 +0000
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.10.2 (14C109)
Report Version: 11
Anonymous UUID: C26DC687-12F4-397A-4EA7-D8242088FF9F
Sleep/Wake UUID: 686BDD41-44F2-4A88-BB95-833776E9FE09
Time Awake Since Boot: 6900 seconds
Time Since Wake: 980 seconds
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
terminating with uncaught exception of type std::logic_error: basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid
abort() called
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff91030286 __pthread_kill + 10
1 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff95223b53 abort + 129
2 libc++abi.dylib 0x00007fff8ed6ba21 abort_message + 257
3 libc++abi.dylib 0x00007fff8ed939b9 default_terminate_handler() + 243
4 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff91fb97eb _objc_terminate() + 124
5 libc++abi.dylib 0x00007fff8ed910a1 std::__terminate(void (*)()) + 8
6 libc++abi.dylib 0x00007fff8ed90b30 __cxa_throw + 121
7 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x00007fff94f6848b std::__throw_logic_error(char const*) + 85
8 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x00007fff94f92883 char* std::string::_S_construct<char const*>(char const*, char const*, std::allocator<char> const&, std::forward_iterator_tag) + 137
9 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x00007fff94f90c8e std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::basic_string(char const*, std::allocator<char> const&) + 56
10 com.adobe.AdobeCrashReporter 0x00000001028d4ce8 AdobeCrashReporterInitialize + 1999
11 com.adobe.illustrator 0x0000000100704238 0x100000000 + 7356984
12 com.adobe.illustrator 0x00000001006f4cfc 0x100000000 + 7294204
13 com.adobe.illustrator 0x0000000100163528 0x100000000 + 1455400
Thread 1:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff91031232 kevent64 + 10
1 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff928b7a6a _dispatch_mgr_thread + 52
Thread 2:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff9103094a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff8f13c40d start_wqthread + 13
Thread 3:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff9103094a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff8f13c40d start_wqthread + 13
Thread 4:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff9103094a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff8f13c40d start_wqthread + 13
Thread 5:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff9103094a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff8f13c40d start_wqthread + 13
Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
rax: 0x0000000000000000 rbx: 0x0000000000000006 rcx: 0x00007fff5fbff248 rdx: 0x0000000000000000
rdi: 0x000000000000130f rsi: 0x0000000000000006 rbp: 0x00007fff5fbff270 rsp: 0x00007fff5fbff248
r8: 0x0000000000000000 r9: 0x00007fff9524dd70 r10: 0x0000000008000000 r11: 0x0000000000000206
r12: 0x00007fff5fbff3d0 r13: 0x000000010a076400 r14: 0x00007fff7cdd7300 r15: 0x00007fff5fbff2b0
rip: 0x00007fff91030286 rfl: 0x0000000000000206 cr2: 0x00007fff7ddc9fd8
Logical CPU: 0
Error Code: 0x02000148
Trap Number: 133

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